Bracelet-holder for watches.



A. G. BEGKEN.

BRACELET HOLDER FOR WATCHES. APPLICATION FILED mm: 2: 1913.

1,093,757, Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

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ALBERT C. BEGKEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BRACELET-HOLDER FOR WATCHES.

Specification of Letters Patent- Patented Apr, 21, 1914.

Application filed June 23, 1913. Serial No. 775,337.

and which are slipped over the hand, andsecond, those which do, not'slip over the hand but are fastened around the wrist by connecting together separable ends of the bracelet. It is obvious that in the second class of devices, the person who secures the bracelet on his own wrist has but one hand which he can use for the operation.

The present device is arranged so as to facilitate the placing of the bracelet on the wrist by, the use of only one hand. 7

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 illustrates the manner of placing. the bracelet upon the wrist; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the bracelet; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

The watch or locket holder H is made of leather or other suitable material and is provided with ears E through which passes a strap s having a buckle B on one end. The other end of the strap is provided with holes, as shown in Fig. 1, for engagement With the tongue of the buckle in the ordinary manner. On account of the pliability of thestrap S there has heretofore been much difiic-ulty in applying such holders to the wrist by the use of only one hand, and

many persons have refused to purchase such holders, or have failed to use'them afterextends from the buckle B to about the point P. This spring is given an initial or preliminary shape which causes it to correspond closely to the upper ,halfof' the oval of the wrist and extends to about the line representing the major axis through the wrist below. The normal contour of the spring and its desirable length are illustrated by the curved part of the strap as it appears in Fig. 2.

In applying the bracelet the upper part of the oval, as shown in Fig. 2, is hung upon the Wrist in much the same way that a hookis hung upon a beam. In doing this the spring A is slightly flexed, and when the flexing is released the bracelet rests lightly upon and close'to the wrist with that part.

of the strap hanging downward which extends beyond the point P. In this-position the operator may pull slightly upon the strap without displacing the bracelet;v from the'wrist, and needslbut one hand to push the end of the strap through the buckle as shown in'Fig. 1. The buckle, of course, has a certain amount of friction at the point of connection with the strap, and this friction permits the buckle to be adjusted by hand to a position which will be convenient for the insertion of the free end of the strap by one hand only.

What I claim is I y 1. In a bracelet'holder for watches, the combination with a holder, a strap, and a buckle for securing the strap and holder to the wrist of the wearer, of a spring secured to the strap and extending in the form of a book from the buckle to'a point beyond the holder and equal in length to more than one-half the circumference of the wrist but less than the entire circumference,

said spring serving to normally hold the strap in such form that it may be easily placed upon the wrist by one hand only and 2'. In a bracelet holder, a holder, a strap secured thereto, a buckle secured to one end of the strap, and a spring secured to the strap and" extending from the buckle to the holder, said spring being bent so that the Signed at Chicago, Illinois this 20th day part of the strap between the buckle and the of J une 1913. holder will be held in the form of a hook adapted to engage the wrist and support the ALBERT BEGKEN' buckle in a position convenient for the in- Witnesses: sertion of the free end of the strap in the AnoLPH MUELLER,

buckle by one hand only. HARRY J. Honens. 

